This Foolish Heart is all JERRY!!!!!

The sound quality on this recording is just great, but the pitch (playback speed) is way too slow. This will make a good recording to learn my new editing software..... (Glass half full). The way the drums are captured with such accuracy and precision is unusual for audience recordings, and that makes this one worth fixing....

Unlike most AUDs from this tour, which have a healthy dose of Phil and are up close but very dry, this source has more reverb and crowd in it. Much more of an overall concert feeling, less claustrophobic. Still, it's about a quarter tone slow (compared both with the SBD and generated tones in Cool Edit). A pitch fix by the original seeder or taper would be a great way to make this source "just exactly perfect".

I have major hearing problems. It’s called tinnitus and for those of you who don’t know it is a constant ringing in your ears. Therefore, it is hard for me to find audience shows that are of good enough quality for me to listen to without doing further damage to my hearing (by having to turn up the volume past 5 to even tell what song is being played!). I am not saying anything about these shows except that as a person with major hearing lose, these are some of the shows that I have on my I-Pod. Of course some are better than others. However, I am not giving any of these shows a review. I can always find something good in every show…...as long as I can hear it!!!! Here is my list for today, 9/20/08:

7.6.84, 10.15.84, 6.19.91,
7.18.89, 6.21.84, 9.6.85,
10.12.84, 10.12.83, 11.1.85,
8.24.85, 7.31.82, 6.25.92,
8.5.89, 10.31.83, 6.26.92,
10.8.84, 12.5.81, 8.30.85,
11.5.85, 6.26.84, 8.3.82,
6.8.80, 10.14.84, 8.10.82,
3.14.81, 12.26.80, 4.15.83,
4.18.82, 10.31.91, 9.2.85,
10.14.83, 4.2.90, 4.30.90,

Please let me know if you have any show suggestions that compare to these in quality of sound. Send suggestions to frostyspicks@live.com.
Peace,
Frosty

All three nights at the Omni were great, and the venue, p.a., and audiences yeild wonderful recordings. It makes me wonder how Archive.org fails to have posted recordings of 3/28, 3/29 set 1, 3/30 and 4/1/90. All wonderful shows in their own right. When the time comes, I believe that several selections from these shows will be presented to demonstrate how great the dead could be. (released as complete concerts)

Already, 3/28 yeilds w/o a net honors for Looks Like Rain, 3/29 Bird Song (So Many Roads) and Eyes (w/o a net) and wildest second set imaginable, 3/30 w/o a net Help>Slip>Franks, and 4/1 w/o a net China>Rider and Dear Mr. fantasy. Any of these nights could be released in full.

4/2 contains powerful music, and the the band is clearly at a peak. Nonetheless, 4/2 and 4/3 are excellent documents of a band relaxing into their groove. Deep, bold, colorful, jazzy. Psychedelic. Maybe more focused and balanced than before. They clearly hint at what is to come later in the year, although, on this night, they set aside the extended flowering of improvisation and settle down into more song-oriented performances.

The setlist contains several twists and turns, including a 1st set Weight, a pre-prumz Last Time, a technically challenged Other One, and the final performance of Death Don't Have No Mercy.
Let it Grow and Foolish Heart are both excellent as well.

As for examples of the emergence of the Dead's '90 megagroove, check out July 12 (Foolish heart>Dark Star), July 19 Desolation Row and Row Jimmy, or 7/21 post drums (Miracle>Crazy>Playin'> Fantasy>Playin'>... There are far too many other examples to mention here.

Solid audience recording, with Phil taking over right from the start.

The sound quality of this recording is good! This was my first time to venture to a Grateful Dead concert. I had to pull the same "I'm going camping gag" to get away for the week as the gentleman in the previous review mentioned. Arrgh...could not score a ticket the first two nights. Didn't have the right game yet! I was blown away with the energy and fantastic vibe going on outside the concert. Airplane acid was so good it did not matter at all whether I was in or outside. Right outside the front of the OMNI there were these big flagpoles, a big NFA chant started up, there were these old Hindu looking people drumming, very ancient man!

Walking the perimeter outside I saw a commotion ahead of me. People were scattering trying to get away from this one guy; frightning! I had to see what was going on. He was standing there with his arms crossed, shaking his hands! I saw an amazing display of chakra, all the colors, but many layers too. I've never heard of any thing like this; that which cannot be described.

Old man came up to me and gave me a J at the end of the night when I was sitten by myself, he had a paper sack full of them to pass out. The hospitality on such a grand scale was new to me. All you kids out there that were at these shows really got to me, really saw the world as a better place, and man, it shined. We should get out more! oh yeah finally got in the 3rd.

note to previous reviewer:
I would assume the reason that the previously mentioned shows are not posted anymore (they were a couple months ago) is b/c portions of them were officially released as you had mentioned in your review, and there was no aud version to remain when they pulled the SBD's.

The archive did not fail to post them, rather the GD folks most likely had the archive remove them.

The energy in that place was unbelievable! The boys came out for that second night and it was like the place would burst! The stranger opener had that touch of weirdness and mischief, making it feel like anything could happen. The place fell apart for The Weight. Let it Grow was downright wicked-you could feel SOMETHING growing. This download does it all justice, with crisp sound and a full prescense that reels me right back to that time.
Does anybody remember the wave at setbreak? Two guys a few rows down started it, and we were just sorta chucking. But by garsh if EVERY SINGLE PERSON in that place wasn't doing the wave after a couple minutes. Just as it went around 2 or 3 times and everyone was having a blast, the lights went down for set 2.
Awesome foolish,nice LLR,Last Time!!(...oh,oh...),He's Gone,-all superb. Death brought the house down-people were hugging and crying and,oh yeah, the band nailed it.TOO was intense and cosmic, and the RnR-USB's was a solid finish.
The sound of this DL captures it all. Crank it up on surround and trip back.
I love the archive and fret not, fellows, word is the Dead DL's will be back real soon!Peace!

This was a great show. I thought it was going to be a little off with the Stranger/Mississippi Half-Step lead in. But the boys nailed The Weight (only the 2nd time played) and we were off and running from there. It just got better and better from then on. A great Last Time and a spectacular Death Don't Have No Mercy. I don't know how many of you were recovering in the parking lot I was at, but a very large train came through, and all I could do was laugh my ass off, a perfect finish to a great show, nothing left to do but Smile, Smile, Smile.

My first Atlanta run,and 34 days fesh out of treatment for being to high for school.[HIGH school].I told parents i was going camping for spring break!I had all 3 nights from a kind girl who bought them for me while i was in treatment,$18.50 a pop.While in treatment i heard only one GD song on the radio.The song was touch of grey,how classic.They opened up with it the first night,even more classic.The second night was actually my favorite,one show in me,one show ahead,and the bands on stage,good feeling.I always thought i needed a whole show to get me back in the groove, by the second show i got my dancin shoes.Highlights the best Weight,complete with the sweetest lick by Jerry that was never heard again in any other version,this being the second one.A deadly Let it Grow.Foolish was also very well played,LL Rain always a favorite was nice.The band pull out the magic during Last Time and Death.Mercy check out this,Brent was shakin like RAY Charles.This was the last time played also.Where is the ViDEO? unlv beats duke by 30!!!!!!,during setbreak.